You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...

Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.

I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

What is not possible is not to choose.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

Sweetheart, all men are animals. Feed us, pet us, and use a firm hand, and we'll worship at your feet.

All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil.